[ laughter ] but, you know, at the end of the day, you have to what is it . Theres the word hope. You hope. What was his name . Leonard cohen, the writer, leonard had something about a crack in the a crack in the sunlight or a crack in the whatever. And he said, theres something about that thats the reason we have cracks. So we can let the light through. And somewhere in people like lincoln and douglass they could let the light. Get your perfect offering, theres a crack in everything, thats how the light gets thats how the light gets in. What a perfect way to end this session. I just want to say thank you to richard, david, and craig for joining us today, for todays cabinet conversation and thanks to everyone for watching. Youre watching American History tv. Every weekend on cspan3, explore our nations past. Cspan3, created by americas capable Television Companies as a Public Service and brought to you today by your television provider. We cre featuring American History tv programs as
Feel of the trenches at a safe distance war on the Silver Screen whether patriotic glorification or cautionary tale movies shaped our ideas about war they tell stories of heroism. And trauma wheelchairs. But where are the black soldiers on the cinematic battlefield and what roles do women play in war movies we put the film genre in our crosshairs 75 years after the end of world war 2. Most of us have never and hopefully will never go to war. Our experience of battle comes from the movies. War has fascinated filmmakers from the start of. Battle scenes push the technical limits of movie make. Over a century of cinema war movies have become more intense more realistic and more violent. Left. But they show us what war is really like sam fuller hollywood director and world war 2 veteran i didnt think it caller who was sometimes in a bad mood would then say if you really wanted to film war you would have to actually fire real and you nation out of the audience are over the heads of the audie
One of the most seminal days of my life was november 22, 1963. As an eightyearold, i learned of the assassination of president kennedy. It isnt unusual for someone like me or anyone of my generation to remember where he or she was, but it seemed to me to change something, and from he developed a fascination. As i grew up, my friends were andrested in captain kirk the new frontier and i was interested in jfk in the old frontier. Lookingdent, i had been , and as a washington correspondent as well, as a way into the kennedy story can story. There were studies, heavy amoirs, there was scarcely part of jfks legacy that had not been dissected and expected inspected and examined. I wondered if there was something new to say. Then i came upon, innocence, these two days in june. We are on the eve of the anniversary. What could i say that was new . When i thought about it, i said to myself, my goodness, two extraordinary speeches, one at in then university morning, one on civil rights in the eve
Shall. We also call the rush on syria to fully respect international law. If the agreements were fully respected. And turkey gave accurate coordinates for the location of its troops are used to such tragedies could be averted. Is that if. This attack happened despite the location of our troops being coordinated in advance with russian officials on the ground there is a result from sliding into a very dangerous and major open International Military confrontation. And today is the final day of screenings at the 70th birthday an International Film festival the n. S. A. From scott rush down on the red carpet. Weve seen all the films now its up to the jury to pick the winners well give you our tips for which films we think could go home with the golden bear well french comedy dark Political Drama or something completely weird well let you know what we think should win thats coming up on the day. Turkey has retaliated for serious deadly strikes against its troops in profits by launching dron
Prisoners escaping. All of this after President Trump withdrew a group of American Forces meant to deter such an invasion from occurring and today u. S. Secretary of defense mark esper confirmed that a fullest withdrawal from multiple times this morning about the situation saying he is dealing with congress about imposing sanctions on turkey. Turkish president erdogan claims more than 20 kurdish villages have been taken over by his forces. He added turkey will advance around 20 miles into syria to help maintain the countrys territorial integrity. We will divide the territory of 480 kilometers down the middle. We will advance 30 to 35 kilometers into territory suitable for the safe zone map as we declared before. Reporter as turkish airstrikes continue to bombard kurdish towns over the past few days, u. S. Forces came under turkish fire. No american soldiers were as these bombings take place, the Syrian Democratic forces say isis fighters and family sy at least 40 civilian casualties ar